No, LLMs have always been an evident dead end when it comes to general AI.

They’re hampering research in actual AI, and the fact that they’re being marketed as AI ensures that no one will invest in actual AI research in decades after the bubble bursts.

We were on track for a technological singularity in our lifetimes, until those greedy bastards derailed us and murdered the future by poisoning the Internet with their slop for some short term profits.

Now we’ll go extinct due to ignorance and global warming long before we have time to invent something smart enough to save us.

But, hey, at least, for a little while, their line did go up, and that’s all that matters, it seems.